WestBridge Community Services is a private non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the recovery of individuals and families that experience co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders over the course of a lifetime. All WestBridge programs utilize evidence-based treatments to help participants achieve their goals. The Commons at WestBridge is a residential facility for men eighteen [...]
Schizophrenia Schizophrenia has been around since 500 B.C. and scientists still have not found the cause. There are so many symptoms and they add on over the years. This mental illness affects 2 in every 10,000 children and takes up 25% of hospital beds. Only about 30% of all patients fully recover from schizophrenia. In [...]
My husband refuses to deal with our 20 year old son who lives in our home who verbally abuses us and uses us, and in addition refuses to stay off of drugs and go to treatment. He has schizophrenia as well and I do not feel safe with him at my home with me and [...]
I believe a close friend of mine may be suffering from schizophrenia. She doesn’t believe anything is wrong, but is on the verge of losing her two children permanently. She is currently involved with social services, but they are treating it as a substance abuse problem. I need to know what can be done. She [...]
My son has had schizophrenia for 10 years and is mostly noncompliant with the medication regimen. Even when he is compliant it doesnt seem to help much other than making him sluggish, heavy and unable to function.It takes away the terror but does not really allow him to live a "normal" life I have begun [...]
I’m just curious to see what everyone thinks… My uncle is in his late 50′s and he has been an addict for several years. He seems to have severe psychological problems due to his constant use of crack cocaine. His siblings, who are known to be uneducated about the effects of drug abuse, claim that [...]
diagnosing him with depression or any mental disorder, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder? They are administering these drugs to him for aggressiveness and behavioral problems. Since when have antipsychotics been used in adolescents for aggressive behavior? Is this ethical? Is this the 21st century version of electroshock therapy and lobotomy? Why is a drug [...]